We met in again the computer lab.
Students who did not meet last week were able to find the HTML5 template from the link in last weeks activity report and quickly catch up on creating their own page. After changing the title and adding text to the body of the template page, the students expressed an interest in setting the text and background colors. After a brief introduction to CSS, we looked at the w3schools pages to get the basic format for embedded style sheets. The students were able to copy a simple stylesheet (style element) from the examples, paste it into their own page, and change the colors as desired. We looked briefly at the explanation of color naming on w3schools.
The students uploaded their pages to the web server (johnsislanders.net) using ftp from the command line. Since they were not familiar with the command line, we briefly discussed differences between the command line and the windows GUI. Although the command line ftp application is unforgiving of spelling errors, both students were able to upload their page with little difficulty. Links to the student pages:
In coming sessions we should continue to look at more html elements, including hyperlinks, as well as simple formatting using embedded stylesheets.